Weekly Winners 2025 - 07
Potential unbannings in Commander have led to a big spike this week, and Zombies are still the rage.
Like every week, just in time for FNM, I'll tell you about the Magic: the Gathering cards that'll be the talk of the town tonight! Come discuss this week's price movements with us on Discord.
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Onto the Weekly Winners!
#1 Dockside Extortionist $72.45 (+393%)
Well, this is interesting. Three days ago Wizards of the Coast has unveiled "Commander Brackets," a new beta matchmaking system for Commander that divides decks into five distinct power brackets and introduces a 40-card Game Changers list. Game Changers are powerful Commander cards that warp games providing overwhelming advantages. The system categorizes decks from ultra-casual to competitive.
But the most interesting thing in the article is that the word "unban" occurs eight times. And now we've hit the nail on the head for why this card moved up.
But let's take a step back first on why we see this card so high up on the Interests list, while there are plenty of other cards that are banned in Commander that aren't moving up this drastically. End of September we added an extra segment in our Weekly Winners called Losers of the Week that talked about
This is the first real big official act of Wizards of the Coast with the newly given control of the format. And now that Wizards is mentioning the word "unban" people think that because of all the commotion around the bans these three cards will likely be the first to come off the banned list.
Frankly, and this is my opinion, I don't see Wizards unbanning these cards. Arguably, the Rules Committee knew the format better than Wizards, and they decided to ban these cards for good reason. If Wizards now decides, this short after the ban, to unban them again, it doesn't really reflect well on them and the respect they had for the committee.
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| Jeweled Lotus | ||
| Mana Crypt |
#2 Drinker of Sorrow $8.99 (+442%)
A card I didn't exactly expect to come up on the Interests is
But there are formats where powercreep doesn't happen, since new cards aren't introduced into the format. One of these is the community-created format Premodern which consists of cards from the sets
It seems that in Premodern the above BG Aggro deck is doing really well lately. If you have sufficient permanents to sacrifice by using cards like
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| Sarcomancy |
#3 Diregraf Colossus $14.24 (+131%)
You may not have gotten the memo, but Zombies are hot at the moment. Two weeks ago we already discussed several when
And speaking of Zombies, we also see specifically the
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| Diregraf Colossus |
Cheap Pickups
Please note: for our 'record low' we consider the price of the card over the past seven years. Many cards were even cheaper (a) decade(s) ago. Also note: some cards are still going down, and might be even cheaper pickups next week.
Mossborn Hydra $4.90 - Moving up!
Final Showdown $5.77 - Moving down
Ygra, Eater of All $11.02 - Slowly moving down
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| Ygra, Eater of All | ||
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Arjen
Arjen has been playing Magic since the Ice Age set released. He primarily plays Legacy format and founded MTGStocks over a decade ago when he and his friends wanted to track card prices to purchase singles at optimal times.